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  • March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
  • Case

Spec's Music (A)

By: John A. Davis and Susan Harmeling
Presents the story of a music retailer in Miami which started in the late 1940s, grew throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and went public in 1985 before experiencing a deep industry crisis in the mid-1990s. At issue in 1996 is whether the company should attempt to sell... View Details
Keywords: History; Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Performance Improvement; Music Industry; Miami
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  • Career Coach

Ben Schlatka

Ben (HBS '05) has deep experience in technology driven organizations - including fund raising and venture formation, product marketing, product management, business development and managing technical professionals in large public and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology

    Eva Arias

    Keywords: Mining
    • 31 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

    more liquidity would have gone a long way” A new study takes a deep dive into the efficacy of the Fed’s quantitative easing strategy, looking at how the various rounds of QE affected “the real economy”—that is, the part of the economy... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 06 Feb 2023
    • Blog Post

    African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

    The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile two AASU members who... View Details

      Tarun Khanna

      Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

      • 11 Dec 2023
      • Blog Post

      Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

      potential. With diverse experience in hand and a deep passion for the company’s mission, Leahy is showcasing exactly why she is the right person for the job. The Beauty of Combining Art and Science In many ways, Leahy’s path to the... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
      • Blog

      When Generations Learn Together

      think his deep work experience for his age, along with intellectual and interpersonal maturity allowed him to be not just completely credible but quite advanced in ways he could add to discussions and exercises—he had a lot of practical... View Details
      • March 2025
      • Article

      Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures

      By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
      The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details
      Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning
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      • 10 Feb 2022
      • Blog Post

      African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

      The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile two AASU members who... View Details
      • June 2025
      • Supplement

      Transforming a Titan (B)

      By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene
      After a global search the board appoints Marcel Cobuz—ex-LafargeHolcim executive with deep innovation experience—as TITAN’s first non-family CEO. Cobuz co-creates a four-pillar roadmap: sharpen the core cement portfolio, accelerate low-carbon products and aggregates,... View Details
      Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; CEO Succession; CEO Role; Family Business
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      • Article

      The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History

      By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
      Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
      Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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      • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      Algramo

      By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
      Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
      Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
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      • 06 May 2021
      • Blog Post

      The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute

      make visits a priority and we want her to value family as much as we do. I have roots. Austin and I started dating when we juniors in high school and grew up together in every sense of the way. Our Midwestern roots are View Details
      • Program

      Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

      connect with a program advisor by emailing executive_education@hbs.edu or by calling +1.617.495.6555. Key Benefits Providing deep insight into the landscape, players, and trends in private equity and venture capital, this new program... View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Finance
      • Web

      Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral

      deep rigorous study. Applicants are evaluated on their academic records, letters of recommendation, research and work experience, statement of purpose, and potential to conduct independent research with the guidance and support of the... View Details
      • 02 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      10 Trends to Watch in 2024

      The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • Web

      Lifelong Learning - Alumni

      Lecturer of Business Administration) 05 Feb 2024 HBS Deep Purpose What it Takes to Lead a Successful Turnaround in Health Care José (Joe) E. Almeida, Chairman, President & CEO of Baxter, on how he has led the successful turnaround of the... View Details
      • 31 Aug 2020
      • Blog Post

      Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

      Nina Mullen and Hilary Quartner are both from the HBS MBA Class of 2017. Nina has deep strategy and consumer products experience, notably at Bain & Company and Harry’s (where she focused on launching Harry’s at Target). Most recently,... View Details
      • Web

      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      Administration Harvard Business School Co-Founder and Chair Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Panelists Azeem Azhar Founder Exponential View Marcelo Claure Founder & CEO Claure Group Mary Erdoes (MBA 1993) Chief Executive Officer,... View Details